Cindy Crawford reveals unusual way her family discovered that her brother had leukemia

• Cindy Crawford opens up about the death of his brother Jeffrey when he was only 3 years old
• She shared that her parents were told he had leukemia because he became very easy after being spanked
• “Later that week we found out he had leukemia, so I think it was. My dad … could never span again,” Crawford said

Cindy Crawford Opens herself to how she and her family learned that her 2-year-old brother had cancer, and it involved physical punishment from her father.

Appear on Kelly Corrigan wonders Podcast On Friday, April 25, the supermodel, 59, opened about the death of her younger brother Jeffrey from leukemia when he was 3 years old. According to Crawford, she and her three siblings were spanking by her parents, John Crawford and Jennifer Sue Crawford-Moluf, as young children.

“I know this sounds very, like, abuse against children, but you know, we were definitely spanked as children,” she shared. “My mom, she would say, ‘Go to your room, you get a spanking.’ And that waiting time to your score was just like the worst. ”

“… I have a brother who died and he had leukemia, and before we knew he had leukemia, one of the symptoms of leukemia is that you are very easy,” the model continued. “My dad had, like sweating him,, but it left as a handprint on him.”

According to Crawford, “tricked her mother” against his father and told him, “you can’t beat the kids so hard, you know, it’s not a spanking.”

“And my dad was like, ‘No, I swear I barely touched them.’ And later that week we found out he had leukemia, so I think it was.

According to City of Hope’s Cancer Centerleukemia cancer of the body’s blood-forming tissues, including the bone marrow and lymphatic system-can cause bruises very easily, as their bodies do not produce enough platelets to coagulate blood vessels.

Host Christy Turlington Burns and Kelly Corrigan Also asked about how her family, especially Crawford-Moluf, handled the death of such a small child.

“I mean, so I was 8. My older sister would have been ten, my younger sister would have been 4,” she shared and referred to her sisters, Chris and Danielle. “And Jeff was like 2 and turned 3 when he was diagnosed and then he was sick for two years.”

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“I didn’t really know it as a child, and I didn’t know and we knew he was sick, but we didn’t really know what was happening,” she shared and opened up how she and her sisters stayed with the big family while her brother was in hospital.

“I think when he died, obviously it was devastating for the whole family. I think for my mother, she could and chose to really mourn properly,” Crawford added. “She went to death and dying courses. She has a very strong faith. So she could move through grief.”

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Crawford has previously been sincere about the loss of his brother at a young age. Last year she also talked to Burns and Corrigan about “Survivor’s debt” which she felt afterwards.

“My dad wanted a boy, so the fourth was the boy. And I think there was a lot of guilt … There is the surviving debt for the other children, especially because we knew my dad really wanted a boy, and we felt it, it should have been one of us,” she shared. “It was so strange for several years.”

“Recently I did some coaching through Covid, I actually had time to do real work and I realized that one of the questions the coach asked me was something that,” What did you need to hear at the time you didn’t hear? “” Crawford added. “And I realized – and my mom would not have known to say this, she was 26 years old and had just lost a child – but I needed to hear: ‘Yes, we are so sorry that Jeff died, but we are so happy that you are here.’ ”